![]() ![]() Wikipedia will tell you that the album is about “ longing, love, depression, alienation, and racial identity,” but, to me, it still sounds like it’s mostly about Mitski. melodrama of its predecessor into something larger, subtler, and sharper: the album sounded both tough and tender, like a bruise blooming across the knee. Two years after “Makeout Creek,” she released “Puberty 2,” which recomposed the D.I.Y. And then she could deliver a hook that lodged itself like a hatchet: “ I want a love that falls as fast as a body from the balcony,” she sings on “Townie.” “I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground.” Lyrically, she could sketch in an entire relationship with a few details-socks on a bed, an Austin breeze, Charles Reznikoff on the brain. Her sonic idiom was guitar-heavy, crunchy and melodic, somewhere between Liz Phair and the Pixies. She started attracting wider attention in 2014, with the album “Bury Me at Makeout Creek,” which established her as a writer with a knack for the intimate and the specific. Her first two albums, which she recorded when she was in college, were self-released, in 20, respectively. She was born in Japan, to a Japanese mother and a white American father she is firmly private about her personal life, and has declined to provide details about her father’s career, but she grew up moving around the globe. Leaving the show, I heard a young woman tell her friend, “I just feel like Mitski is exactly what our culture needs.”Īs happens with stars, people seem to love the idea of Mitski as much as the fact of her. She comes across, onstage and in interviews, as both elusive and genuine, qualities that are, lately, in short supply. The crowd was rapt, screaming every time she did a half-step of her quasi-choreography the low conversational murmur that sometimes runs beneath the music at shows like this was entirely absent. “I love you more than anyone in the world,” someone yelled, last Monday, at the last of the Brooklyn Steel performances. leg to the tour, which will begin in March.) Her stardom has more to do with how intensely her audience projects its desires onto her, how much narrative hunger is generated from the isolated snippets of herself that she presents. ![]() This isn’t a question of crowd size-although she did open for Lorde on an arena tour earlier this year and, at the beginning of December, play four sold-out nights at the eighteen-hundred-capacity venue Brooklyn Steel. ![]() Mitski, the twenty-eight-year-old singer-songwriter who, this past August, put out “Be the Cowboy,” one of the best albums of the year, is a star. ![]()
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